An independent author’s success is dependent on one thing and one thing only, the reviews of their readers. We need a review to prove people are actually reading our stories and to assist us in improving as an author. Because of this we independent authors have to have a thick […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
227 posts
I am going to go out on a limb here in the hopes of learning from fellow authors and readers. If you read that a novel was influenced by Christian, Jewish or Islamic faith, would you immediately discard reading the book? The reason I ask this is that many stories […]
I am currently on my fourth book of a nineteen story mythology. I have already completed a trilogy which by itself stands alone as very entertaining and though provoking read. This fourth book is an expansion of the history contained in the first nine chapters of the first book of […]
This month on the opposing blog edition, Female Code, is a post the lengths women go through to have a baby and all that follows afterwards. I called this post Baby Olympics, because I finally realized it was a game between women. If one announced she was pregnant, a race […]
I was involved, against my will, in a conversation with my pregnant daughter-in-law, daughter and wife about our upcoming grandchild. It was in that conversation that I learned another female friend of my daughter-in-law wanted to be the first to announce a pregnancy. My daughter had already announced she was […]
When I began drafting the mythological world of Allivar in the year 2000, I wanted to create a complex, yet original universe of characters, races, worlds, monsters, etc. Leading the way to my influence I turned to my lack of knowledge of mythology. I had enjoyed Greek and Roman mythology […]
Every author wants to be creative and original. In my current chapter work in progress, there are five very young children, ages three to six. They are trying to be saved from a horrifying situation by the heroine of the story. The heroine uses the aid of a lullaby to […]
Today I read a blog post regarding the shunning of family members due to religious beliefs. The blog was this young woman’s way of dealing with issues in a religious family. I admit fully that I have read the Bible in entirety and attended a large nondenominational church. I was […]
Although I cannot speak for every author, I assume those that create an epic adventure begin with the world in which the story will revolve. The lands, the peoples of those lands, the creatures, geography and the plot will all revolve around where the characters are in the current narrative. […]
Name: A. R. Silverberry Book title: Wyndano’s Cloak Genre: Preteen Fantasy Adventure Publisher: Tree Tunnel Press Date of publication: 3/15/2010 Who or what inspired you to write in this genre? Every since I was a child, I’ve been drawn to fantasy literature. One of the first books I saw as […]